The Stratification Principle
I am reading a paper by Eun-Young Kwon of Teachers College, Columbia University called "The 'Natural Order of Morpheme Acquisition': A Historical Survey and Discussion of Three Putative Determinants". I have color-coded and teased apart Table 2 in Excel format to try to get a sense of pattern. Frankly, I don't see a great deal of similarity [...]
Posted at 10:51 am on June 8, 2006 | leave a comment | Filed Under: applied linguistics, efl, elt, esl, language acquisition, natural order acquisition, tefl, tesl, tesol | read on
Natural Order Acquisition and Error Analysis
Next to students picking their ears with their pencils while kicking their neighbours' chairs and muttering secret deprecations in advanced Mother Tongue in the middle of your explanation of the future perfect continuous, it's probably the most annoying phenomenon in the business: students of all ages, walks and IQs repeating the same mistakes interminably despite [...]
Posted at 2:54 am on June 8, 2006 | 1 comment | Filed Under: applied linguistics, efl, elt, esl, language acquisition, monitor, natural order acquisition, tefl, tesl, tesol | read on
